Category: ghosts

• Ghosts of Christmas Past

  When people think of Christmas, I suspect that ghost stories and paranormal literature are not the first thing that pop into their minds. Despite that, one of the most beloved works of paranormal literature is indelibly associated with Christmas and, in many ways, shaped the way we think about the holiday. I’m referring, of course,…

  David Lee Summers

  December 18, 2025

  ghosts, holidays, Poetry, vampires, writing

  A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, ghosts, Joe Hill, NOS4A2, Poetry, Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

• Speakable Horror

  

  Narrating Fear and Sharpening Instincts Living something—even if only in the mind’s eye—can leave a lasting imprint. That’s what I love about horror. It lingers. It teaches. It prepares. The horror genre has a remarkable way of keeping us alert. It activates our survival instincts, nudging us to imagine the worst and consider how we’d…

  supernaturallymy4a879b20e3

  August 28, 2025

  Audio Drama, audiobooks, ghosts, horror books, horror movies, Horror Narration, visceral horror

  fear, ghosts, horror, Narration

• A Lasting Gift

  ‘He’s here, you know…’ ‘Grandma, who’s here? What do you mean?’ ‘It’s my sweet John, your granddad, he’s always here when I need him. He’s just over there, at the end of my bed. I know you can’t see him. But he’s smiling that smile I used to love so much’. Eloise looked up at…

  Peter

  May 8, 2025

  ghosts, Stories

  fear, ghosts, historical fiction, horror, romance, short story, VE Day, Victory in Europe

• Happy Days

  A chill fog dampened the sounds of the city as I arrived, cloaking the once proud Victorian street in gloom. Dilapidated and awaiting demolition, the street had one remaining house showing signs of life. My destination. Above the door, a flickering neon sign proclaimed “Happy Days”. In the grimy window hung a lopsided sign announcing:…

  Peter

  May 5, 2025

  ghosts, short story, Stories

  ghosts, short story

• Chimera

  They call these places Gothic. Ruined places of worship that horror movies love to shoot, in the dark, preferably during a thunderstorm. Except today was a bright blue gem of a day, not a thundercloud in sight. If it wasn’t for the decayed body of a man recently found in the ruins of the crypt,…

  Peter

  April 21, 2025

  ghosts, horror of the mind, Stories

  ghost, short story

• The Missing

  Those that kill, believe dead men tell no tales. But the dead can speak. They find a way. With my help, I take that message to the living. The call came late on a dreary afternoon, the grey skies and drizzle of another English winter, given up on its seasons. Inside a squad car, reduced…

  Peter

  April 7, 2025

  ghosts, short story, Stories

  crime, dead, Fiction, ghosts, horror, short story

• Testament – Part 2

  Before you start reading this post, I suggest you read “Testament” by Jack Tyler at this link [https://threadsthatbind.net/2025/01/30/testament/] first. Jack posted this story here on the blog and I loved it. However, the story ends on a huge cliffhanger—and immediately a continuation/conclusion came to my mind. I asked Jack if he would mind me writing…

  merchakandrea

  March 27, 2025

  ghosts, Stories

  ghosts, horror, short story

• The Keeper

  They would come for him as soon as he closed his eyes. They always did. So the answer was as simple as it was impossible: don’t close your eyes. And don’t ever sleep. George gazed at the horizon, at the exact point where the sky fell into the arms of the sea, and he could…

  Peter

  March 17, 2025

  ghosts, horror books, horror of the mind, short story, Stories

• CORA’S TREE

  Since Halloween is coming (ready or not!) and I’m busy with a real project and a so-far imaginary one (more on that later if it pans out), I thought I’d show y’all a slightly abridged version of one of the Storm Ketchum Tales I wrote (as Garrett Dennis). The Tales are short stories and novellas…

  Garrett Dennis

  October 17, 2024

  ghosts, Local Legends, Stories

• THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO CAROLINA

  I decided to hop on the ‘haunted homelands’ bandwagon this time around, as several other posters did before me. My subject is the U.S. state of North Carolina. Although I no longer live there, it’s a special place to me. I still visit there occasionally, mostly at towns on the islands of the Outer Banks,…

  Garrett Dennis

  July 11, 2024

  ghosts, Local Legends